Alien world

Chapter 249 102. Plague in the South

Annan, who was supporting the festering man, was mottled, faded, and frozen on the magic newspaper.

"Remember, this is Xingyue Bay, you don't need to be afraid of anything except the law—" Annan's words that day were also narrated by Evelyn.

"You even published this?"

Annan was soaked in a bucket filled with potion, holding a magic newspaper and talking to Ingrid.

"It helps increase resident cohesion and bring in more residents, don't you like it?"

"It's nothing, it's just that I didn't notice that the reporter was next to me."

Feeling that the soaking time was about the same, Annan climbed out of the bucket, took the towel handed by Abby to wipe the black hair, and a cleaning technique made the mage's robe dry again.

"You shouldn't touch them directly," Ingrid said.

Because he contracted the disease not long after he came into contact with the new citizens in Annan.Invite a mage who can heal to help get rid of the disease, and take a medicated bath on time every day.

"Any thing else?"

Annan asked Ingrid who hadn't left yet.

"A personal question." Ingrid asked hesitantly, "Why do you accept this group of poor people who can't do anything?"

Annan fell silent, recalling the horrors he saw in Louisiana: dying people were exposed to the scorching sun, seagulls were biting the belly of a pregnant woman in a damp alley; dozens of rats dragged children down the sewer, and homeless people were almost lying on their stomachs. The blood-sucking worms on the body were eaten into mummies, and the deaf boy was sold to the heretics for sacrifice...

"I can't accept their death..."

Even in this world, death is normal.

Annan can accept their existence, but he can't accept seeing them and ignoring them.

As for why you can't see these people in the northern border...it's not because Breeze City is well managed and the environment in the northern border is comfortable.On the contrary, the environment in the northern border is harsh, and if they can't survive the harsh winter, they won't suffer so much.All the ways to die here will become ice sculptures on the side of the road.

If Xingyue Bay couldn't make ends meet, Ingrid would say that Annan is a good man but not a qualified lord, but now that Xingyue Bay is flourishing, she would say: Annan is a good lord.

The New Initial headed to the south at full speed, and the Ratman clan heading north brought tension back to the Xingyue Bay, which had not been relaxed for a long time.

A few months later, Annan contacted the centurion who was about to forget again, and she replied with an ambiguous "get ready"...should it mean "the rat man may or may not come"?
Under the new crisis, 100 guards in Xingyue Bay seemed not enough.So Annan asked the captain of the personal guard to expand the number of soldiers to 500, and specially hired a group of four scavengers as instructors.

After all, their next enemy is likely to be the Ratmen.

Annan participated once, and got a perfect score easily, and then deducted zero.

The theme is to arrange several scarecrows for Violets Udora: the squirrel, the elite skaven, the champion skaven and a little girl.The newcomers chose the most difficult-looking squirrels and champion ratmen, but Annan stabbed the girl's straw with a long gun to the point of chilling her heart.

Violets Udora praised Annan, saying that the three ratmen were guarding the girl, so the girl was actually a special ratman being protected.

Zero points were deducted because Annan changed to attack other Ratmen after knowing this.

In the following time, the Seahawks did not come, the Louis City Merchant Ship did not come, and when May was coming to an end.Good news finally came from Michael - he made gunpowder from alchemy.

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"what is this?"

"gunpowder."

Michael brought a cluster of flames close to the "gunpowder", and the "gunpowder" burned violently.Then the sealed canister containing the "gunpowder" was ignited and thrown to the corner, it exploded loudly, and the burning fragments splashed everywhere.

There was no alarm outside the alchemy room, as if they were used to it.

"Burning and explosion, all meet your requirements."

"But the gunpowder I propose is... powder."

Michael seriously pointed out Annan's mistake: "You shouldn't solidify your thinking. There are many paths for a mage, and it doesn't matter which way you use to achieve it!"

"It shouldn't be called gunpowder anyway..."

"What's that called?"

"oil."

Annan looked at the black viscous liquid next to Michael and said.

"Oil? Sounds inferior to gunpowder."

"How did you find out?"

Annan asked, and the result was astonishing: it was alchemy produced by Michael through a set of complicated steps.

Oil is very useful, but not including Xingyue Bay, which has not yet sprouted industrially.Only the by-product bitumen is of any use, and it's hard to find anything that burns more violently than petroleum.

Oil-baked rat sounds like a treat.

But the problem is, this is obtained from alchemy and not from the ground.As a rough estimate, the cost of refining a pound of oil is roughly equal to a gold coin.

"Sulphur, saltpeter, charcoal. The gunpowder I need must use these three as the main raw materials..."

Annan gave Michael 100 gold coins again, and took away a few pounds of oil he had refined.

"Stop spending months on it!"

Holding the oil, he ran to the blacksmith shop to show it to Bronzebeard. The dwarves had never seen such a thing, so Annan had to store it temporarily.

May passed, and came the warm June.

Annan's second rainy season is approaching.

The big ship named Xingyue Bay was sailing forward. The merchant ships in Louis City arrived with a full load of goods and left with a full load of goods. The sea eagle disappeared.

Louis City is just a small city, but Olmedo is quite satisfied, because Louis City is still connected to the surrounding city-states.She has ordered that Breeze City be prohibited from selling devil iron at a low price, and all devil iron will be supplied to Xingyue Bay.Merchants want to buy?It's okay, but you have to buy it at twice the official price.

A sunflower field opened outside the lord's mansion, and it was even published in the next issue of "Xingyuewan News". The crew also changed batch after batch.

West, who ran to the city of Harvest, sent the first letter. He was not lucky, and "The Fall of the Mage Tower" and "Betal's Redemption" had already become popular there-of course there is no copyright.

West said in the letter that he only sold a few Philosopher's Stones by virtue of his status as "Annan's subordinate".

Annan asked West to find creatures over three meters in reply.As long as the portal is formed, Xingyuewan can use magic newspapers to seize the market.

Humans and alien races chasing dreams come to Xingyue Bay all the time. The population of Xingyue Bay has exceeded [-] and will be shortened from next year to this harsh winter.

The budget, which has been decreasing, has finally achieved a surplus - so there is no news about the third magical video.

When Xingyue Bay was thriving, bad news came from the new initial account...

More than a month of voyage has made the New Initial have experienced a lot.Pirates, heretics, traps masquerading as ports, but this time it's different.

"The plague," Francois said.

"A terrible plague is spreading through animals and food..."

(End of this chapter)